Low maintenance setups

[puffcrusader696]

Post you lowest maintenance setups. i.e. tank size, filter, light type, stocking, and so on. all the ways you made your tank the lowest maintenance tank in the house!


Mine would be my 14 gallon goldfish tank with an Aqua-Tech 5-15g power filter with a pleco for algae, 3 fiddler crabs for the rest of it. and finally a plant for absorbing some fish waste. got alot of fish so no CO2 for max absorbtion of waste! Havent cleaned it yet and its been running for about 2 months so far!

 

[japes]

Well, I don't overly understock or anything, but my input would be that anything filtered by Eheims Classics that is moderately stocked will be a very low maintenance fish tank.

I keep two tanks, my 140Gal gets an Algae scrub and a 30% change every week running two Eheims Classics and a Wet/Dry at around 3500lph total (rated). Other tank is a 75Gal planted that is moderately stocked, gets an algae scrub about once very two months, filtered by two Internals and a 1400Lph canister, which get cleaned every two months or so (cheapies), and a 30% water change every two weeks.

 

[unstopable4700]

30 hex w/ a yellow damsel and saddle puffer w/ 20 lbs live rock, seaclone sometimes skimmer, and mag 350. gets glss done every few months and filter cleaned 2x a year maybe.

 

[SchizotypalVamp]

But goldies get up to a foot long, and fiddler crabs are brackish and need land???

 

[puffcrusader696]

well yeah ill have to move the goldies eventually but now they're fine. at the LFS the crabs were there for a week with no way to get above the water and were fresh. ill move them to a brackish tank when i can but i cant right now cuz my one is my puffer tank. and that wouldnt be a good idea "o no! whered my little crabs go??? i put them there just a few minutes ago!" lol

 

[cassharper]

10g Semi-Leiden style tank. 3 Brevis, 3 guppies, 3 serpae tetras, 2 florida flag fish, AC 20, Lights, Water change every month, refill auto feeder at same time. Such a high plant volume ammonia, nitrates, nitrites are all always at 0.

 

[CHOMPERS]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69943

This is about my 250g maintenance free tank.

It changes its own water and cleans its gravel. I only have to change the filter pad when it gets dirty.

The filter system on my tank array named "Tha Bait Shack" only needs to be cleaned once every 6-9 months.

 

[beno]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69943

This is about my 250g maintenance free tank.

It changes its own water and cleans its gravel. I only have to change the filter pad when it gets dirty.

The filter system on my tank array named "Tha Bait Shack" only needs to be cleaned once every 6-9 months.

Nice tank! If on;y all tanks were that easy...